Every Mastodon explanation is like "It's very simple, your account is part of a kerflunk, and each kerflunk can talk to each other as part of a bumblurt. At the moment everyone you flurgle can see your bloops but only people IN your kerflunk can quark your nerps. Kinda like email."
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch ? (ciaraioch@mastodon.ie)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2022 12:06:14 JST Ciara | Ciaraíoch ? -
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2022 12:06:12 JST Alexandre Oliva so far, I've seen analogies of social media federation with email, bank transfers, telephone calling, (theoretical) messaging between twitter and facebook...
has any of the recently-welcome fedizens found any of them to make sense of the notion of federation?
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ar.al? (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2022 12:06:13 JST ar.al? @Ciaraioch Funny ‘cos it’s true :) (Lots of folks are trying to find simple ways to explain the basic concepts but it’s definitely an ongoing challenge.)
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it's B! Cavello ? (b_cavello@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 21:11:45 JST it's B! Cavello ? @SeanFlah "Hot males?!??" 🤨
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Seán Flah ☑️ (seanflah@mastodon.ie)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 21:11:51 JST Seán Flah ☑️ @jimothy @Ciaraioch Back in the dark ages when I had a hotmail account and I casually mentioned the address to my parents... "And what do you be doing [raised eyebrow] on this HOTmail craic???" says the mother.
"It's just an email account."
"Don't be throwing fancy words at me all right..."
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Jimothy 🐢 (jimothy@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 21:11:56 JST Jimothy 🐢 @Ciaraioch “Are ye on that Master Dom site again?” No mam I already told you it’s mastodon
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